Now that I'm sitting in my room, I just realized that I don't have a life...ha,ha...

I spend the day yesterday uploading videos on youtube and organizing my brand spankin' new totally awesome freewebs site. Plus I wrote a couple more chapters for my published stories and worked on my new one that will be coming out soon as I have said before.

I think that's all to say for now, but keep in store for my random notes at the beginning and end of my chapters.

This chapter isn't really anything in particular but it does show the beginning of Chad's feelings for Taylor. It also introduces the somebody who is looming in the background of Taylor's life.

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CHAPTER THREE

The sunshine beating down on the school, Taylor walked to school, balancing her backpack, her purse, and Corbin amongst her two hands. Her heels clicked loudly as she rushed up to the doors of East High. She opened the door and ran over to her locker and cradling the baby in the crook of her arm, she twirled in her combination and pulled the door, almost yanking it off it's hinges.

"Geez Taylor, what's the hurry today?" Gabriella asked, adjusting the strap of her backpack.

"This darn baby keep me up all night and wouldn't stop crying. It drove my mom and dad up the wall and frankly, I wanted to pull my hair out. I didn't even have time to do my hair or make-up." Taylor thrust the doll into Gabriella's arms, "Hold this," and shifted some things in her locker. She pulled out a make-up bag, comb, and hair clips. "Where's Katerina? With Troy, I suppose." She started to run the comb through her hair with one hand and started to apply mascara with the other.

"Yeah, he wanted to share the responsibilities," Gabriella answered. She looked at her best friend. How could she do all this at once and in five minutes? It always took her at least half an hour to get her hair the way she wanted it. Troy always said that she wasted too much time and that she didn't need make-up, but she never listened.

"I wish Chad would at least put in an effort to do something," Taylor stated, putting down the brush and with two hands, clipped her bangs up out of her eyes.

Gabriella didn't know what to say. She was just lucky that she got an amazing boyfriend like Troy Bolton. Maybe Taylor could learn to cooperate with Chad...in time.

"I mean really," she looked at her profile in the reflection in the mirror, "he could've at least spend some time with Corbin yesterday instead of dumping him on me. What kind of a father does that?" She threw everything back in her locker and closed it. She already had her school books with her.

"At least you named him...that's gotta count for something, doesn't it?" Gabriella returned Corbin back to Taylor.

"Yeah, it means that maybe I won't get an F-, I'll probably just be lucky to get a C!" Taylor threw her arms up in exasperation. "But I can't get a C, because if I do, he'll...he'll..."

"He'll what? Who are you talking about?"

"Never mind. Never mind that I said anything. Look at the time," she looked at the digital read-out on her wristwatch, "I've got to head to Advanced Lit. I'll see you at lunch Gabi," Taylor picked up her backpack and started toward the east wing of the school.

"I'll see you at lunch then. See ya!" Gabriella called after her friend. "What's up with her? It's not like her to keep secrets from me. I wonder who this 'he' is and what he'll do to her?"

"Gabi, you ready to go see Darbus again?" Troy had suddenly appeared out of nowhere again, cradling their child in his left arm.

"How do you do that?" Gabriella put her hand over her speeding heart.

"Do what?"

"Suddenly appear out of nowhere," Gabriella and Troy chuckled, "Well, anyway, yeah I'm ready."

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Taylor arrived to her Lit class with plenty of time to spare, so she thought that she's get a start on her Calculus work. Pulling out her pencil and paper, she started by writing her name at the top, then teachers, then subject, and then date. She had always written things in that format ever since middle school. Teachers always praised her for the neatness that she had always wrote. So did her father and she always made sure that it always pleased her father.

"Ms. McKessie, what are you doing here?" asked Mathew, one of her friends on the math club.

"Hey Matt," she answered, looking up, "Just doing some Calc work. Want to have a jump start so I have time to take care of the..."

And on cue, the doll started crying. Taylor threw down her pencil and picked up the doll, standing up and bouncing on the balls of her feet. The baby started to quiet down and she took her seat again, cuddling it in both arms.

"I'll have time to take care of the baby. Can you believe that Mr. Levisk paired me up with Chad Danforth? The true lunkhead basketball boy." She looked around for her pencil, which ended up flying of the desk.

"Tough luck. Well, are we going to meet up this afternoon in the chem lab?"

"Yeah, sure," Taylor picked up her pencil, "Wait, why are we meeting in the chem lab? Why don't we meet in the back of Ms. Darbus's room?"

"Ms. Darbus told us that we have to go somewhere else. I guess that she's doing something important in there right now. So, the only room we could get was the chem room."

"Alright, so we're all meeting in the chem room." She opened her Calc book and flipped to the page she knew where she would have homework.

Just then, the bell rang. The class filled with students and the teacher patrolled in, carrying her briefcase and coffee. She slammed case on the floor and placed her coffee on the edge of the desk. "Put away the homework, Ms. McKessie, or I'll confiscate it."

Not wanting that to happen, Taylor folded the paper in half, stuffed it in the book, shut it, and quickly pushed it underneath her chair. At that moment, Corbin started crying again. Frantically, she dug through her purse for the binky and stuffed it in the baby's mouth.

"Ms. McKessie, I warn you now to keep that thing quiet. I will not have it interrupting my class," Ms. Owen said, pointing the chalk she was using in her direction.

Taylor didn't respond. She just hoped that for the rest of the class, the doll would remain quiet and calm. "I hope that Chad's having the time of his life right now, because he's getting Corbin tomorrow!"

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Chad walked into the doors of East High and traveled through the empty halls with a backpack slung over his shoulder and basketball in hand.

"Great!" he whispered to himself and hearing it echo down the hallway, "I'm back in here again. Why didn't my parents just let me off?" He headed to the office to let the school know that he had arrived and then off to his first class.

Along the way, he passed Taylor's Advanced Lit. Class and heard the baby crying. He glanced in and saw Taylor place the binky in Corbin's mouth. He smiled, looking upon her and seeing how hard she was trying to keep it quiet. Then he heard Ms. Owens scold her and that's snapped him out of it. "She's a math nerd. I'm not supposed to like her in any, ANY way." Chad turned away and continued down the hall, pushing away feelings that he could be feeling for Taylor.

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Who is this someone who Taylor's afraid of? And is that a gentle side to Chad? Will his feelings develop into something more? Stay tuned for the next chapter!

With much love,
KAT